{"id":22558,"date":"2014-04-07T07:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=22558"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:58:21","slug":"a-lesson-in-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/a-lesson-in-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything-voluntary.com\/2014\/04\/a-lesson-in-semantics.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Semantics.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>Everything-Voluntary.com<\/a> | I attended government run schools, but I don&#8217;t remember much of specifics that I learned there.  However one particular lesson has stayed with me very vividly since I learned it almost 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We were doing a unit on semantics &#8211; the study of meaning in language.  The teacher stood in the front of the room with only his middle finger raised.  There were a few whispers and maybe even a giggle or two. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;What?  I&#8217;m just holding up my middle finger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We went on to discuss that words and symbols only have the meaning that we give them. <\/p>\n<p>How often do we forget that others may not have the same meaning attached to words that we do? I think this is definitely that case when it comes to words in the realm of voluntaryism:  anarchy, government, law, public, etc. <\/p>\n<p>We can either complain about the differences in our semantics &#8211; or we can try to understand what those words mean to them.  If we do this, perhaps we can find common ground to reason together.<\/p>\n<p>By Musing Fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything-Voluntary.com | I attended government run schools, but I don&#8217;t remember much of specifics that I learned there. However one particular lesson has stayed with me very vividly since I learned it almost 30 years ago. We were doing a unit on semantics &#8211; the study of meaning in language. The teacher stood in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1073,1396],"class_list":["post-22558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-definitions","tag-semantics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}